March 4,
2020
Liz Writes
Life
Garden
Oh boy, a
few daffodils are seven-inches high and about to pop open. Yay! I just love
this bright yellow during late winter. The Jessie Hammond daffodils, next to
the west side of the house, look like they will open in about week. So, I started
checking the rest of the flower garden areas and noticed the tulips are also
several inches high. Darn, now I really gotta get out there and pull-out all
the dead perennial stalks.
My goodness,
it is so dry that I worry about the perennials. The little violets near the
house have been blooming for several weeks, but look so weak and bedraggled
because of lack of rain. My outside water is turned-off, because it runs just
underground in a plastic line. Freezing temps are far from over and I don’t
want to break a line or a faucet. So, I may need to drag the hoses out of the
garage and hook them up to the frost free faucet by the pump house and
irrigate.
In checking
more of the flower garden, I noticed the iris’ are up along with a few inches
of daylilies and coreopsis. The two varieties of lamb’s ears never did die back
and neither did the fever few, which is three-inches high trying to catch-up to
happy-looking California poppy plants. So I checked the Oriental poppy plants
and several of them are up eight-inches with foot-long draping fronds.
Then, I
realized I better check the garden. The chives are pushing up through its old
vegetation. Yep, they are pretty tough. Surprisingly, some of the garlic cloves
I planted in November are up several inches -- and look wimpy. Ugh, they need
water too! Oh and there was a four-inch deep hole affecting several new garlic.
Hum, it must be a spot the cats decided to claim. I covered it with more
chicken wire. They can “go” somewhere else.
I no longer
need to worry about the rhubarb as several stems are just starting to uncurl
cracking through the soil. Whew! I felt that I over-harvested last fall and was
concerned I might have killed the plants. I also looked at the asparagus bed,
but didn’t see any sign of life, yet. Good. It needs a good watering.
Because a
mild March is projected, lettuce and peas could be planted anytime, but may
need irrigation. I do want to plant some lettuce, but will have to keep the
sprinkle-water-bucket full and use it quite often.
In checking
the recent snowpack situation in the Sierras, it has dropped from 90 percent of
average, in early January, to 64 percent of average a few days ago. That is not
good. Time to really pray for rain!
POW
Ray Haupt,
Siskiyou Co. Supervisor for Dist. 1, spoke at the Scott Valley Protect Our
Water meeting last Thursday. He shared there is significant push from government
agencies to address wildfire behavior and over-loading of timber and brush in
the privately-owned lands as well as the public lands.
In early
February, Ray traveled to Sacramento to meet with a Governor Newsom task force,
which is transitioning from a beetle tree task force (these were beetles that
were killing swaths of trees) to the newly named Forest Health and Fuels
Reduction Task Force. Ray was appointed by the Siskiyou Co. Board of
Supervisors as its representative and was also chosen by the Rural County
Representatives of California (RCRC) to serve on the task force. RCRC is a 37-member
county organization that champions policies on behalf of California’s rural
counties.
This was
the kick-off meeting that will focus on specific areas to thin trees and brush,
which will coordinate grant monies coming from the state legislature and the
Governor’s Hazardous Fuels Initiative.
Ray said
this should be extremely helpful for Siskiyou County as it will be a new tool
for the county to address specific high-risk areas in the county and coordinate
support from the state. For once, the county will have a stronger voice regarding
its priorities.
There is
also another potential aid or tool that will help the county work on reducing
the threats of wildfires and this is in the latest Farm Bill. It provides a
Master Stewardship Agreement for county supervisors to directly work with
federal agencies on fuel reduction that affects county citizens. County staff
is working on a presentation that will be shown and discussed at the March 17,
2020 board meeting.
These
programs are a huge acknowledgement that the different levels of government and
agencies must coordinate, communicate and actually work together. Ray is hopeful
much more work will get done on the ground.
COOL
labeling
Frank
Endres, who is a rancher in Tehama County, will speak to the Siskiyou Patriots
on Tuesday, March 10, 2020 at 6:30 p.m. Endres will discuss the need to help
beef producers re-obtain “Country Of Origin Labeling” for beef products
entering the United States. COOL was mandated through the U.S. Farm Security
and Rural Investment Act of 2002, but has since seen the repeal of labeling beef.
Endres
wants to change that and re-include beef in COOL. Endres serves as a regional
director of R-CALF, an organization that represents U.S. cattle and sheep
producers with a membership of more than 5,000 cow-calf producers, cattle
backgrounders and feeders. Endres will also explain how American family farmers
are being priced out of the market. This should be quite informative. The
meeting will be held at the Covenant Chapel at 200 Greenhorn Rd. in Yreka.
Liz Bowen
began writing ranch and farm news, published in newspapers, in 1976. She is a
native of Siskiyou County and lives near Callahan. Columns from the past year
can be found at: lizwriteslife.blogspot.com. Call her at 530-467-3515.
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